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Christopher Partridge

Christopher Partridge

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Christopher Hugh Partridge (born 1961) is an author, editor, professor at Lancaster University, and founding Co-director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Popular Culture.[2] According to Gordon Lynch, Partridge is a leading scholar of topics in popular culture.[3]

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Major works

  • The Encyclopedia of New Religions: New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities (Lion Hudson Plc, 2006)
  • The Lure of the Dark Side: Satan & Western Demonology in Popular Culture (Equinox Publishing Ltd, SW11, 2008)
  • The Re-Enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture, Vol I and Vol II, (T. & T. Clark Publishers, 2006)[4][5][6]
  • Dub in Babylon: The Emergence and Influence of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-punk (Equinox Publishing, 2010)
  • The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • Mortality and Music: Popular Culture and the Awareness of Death (Bloomsbury, 2015)
  • High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2018)

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References

  1. [1]
    Partridge, Christopher Hugh (1995). Revelation, Religion and Christian Uniqueness: An Appreciative Critique of H.H. Farmer's Theological Interpretation of Religion (PhD thesis). Aberdeen, Scotland: University of Aberdeen. OCLC 53682617.
  2. [2]
    Professor Christopher Partridge
  3. [3]
    Gordon Lynch, "The Role of Popular Music in the Construction of Alternative Spiritual Identities and Ideologies," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 45.4 (Dec., 2006): 481–488.
  4. [4]
    Ann Gleig, "Review of The Re-Enchantment of the West, Volume 2: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture," Religious Studies Review 33.1 (Jan., 2007): 33–33.
  5. [5]
    Jonathan W. Rice, "Review of The Re-Enchantment of the West, Volume 1: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture," Religious Studies Review 32.4 (Oct., 2006): 247–247.
  6. [6]
    Jennifer Walters, "Review of THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE WEST Volume One: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture," TLS 5341 (8/12/2005): 29–29.
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